Great beginning for Carrollton grad DeShasier

Published
12:00 am CDT, Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Alicia DeShasier had never thrown the javelin competitively before last Saturday. The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville senior, who played softball at Carrollton, had a memorable debut. In her first-ever competition, she recorded a distance of 162 feet, 1 inch at the University of Missouri Relays. Her mark not only won the event by 16 feet, but it broke the existing SIUE school record of 160-4. The former record was set in 2004 by Holly Noller, who won the NCAA Division II title in the javelin.